Muhahhaaha "fined" for the "time saved" in writing 9 lines of code that the judge already advised counsel he (the judge) could write in less than am afternoon. Ooooh look out, here cones a $10,000 fine. Quick, sell GOOG now!!!

That's quite a picture to imagine, Balmer, Ellison and Mueller bending over the keyboard to post anti-Google comments, with Cook looking over the shoulder and Jobs' ghost hanging around in the corner... Kinda like this [wikipedia.org].

Dear Oracle, Apparently your lawyers are about the same quality as your databases. When your lawyers lost, did they email technical support and receive the answer, "Please restart your database"--you know, because they hadn't tried that 5 times.

On the plus side, anyone that implemented the TCP/IP protocols, HTTP, DNS, FTP, etc.. would immediately have to purchase licenses from the US Government, MIT, Berkley, UC, etc... We could solve the national debt of the USA in pretty much 1 verdict.

This has been discussed in legal channels already, and would probably harm money grubbers much more than help them.